European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse A Philistine trip to Italy stripes Magazine o Pilot Bonus plan hits Snag Page 2 d Randy Barnett s car Corner Page 13 g pistons Stop lakers even playoffs. Page 17 Turno Idieo unofficial f Uhlry tation Fallt the . Aimed Fod Cei vol. 47. No. 60 thursday. June 16, 1988 Good Norn Nof an i Jim i Tumi q 8693 a Fri conducts major probe of electronic sales to Dod Washington a Fri agents tuesday searched he Flics of two lop Pentagon officials a former Navy offi Cial and some of the nation largest de sense contractors in a major invest Iga lion of alleged fraud briber and bid rigging in the Sale of electronic gear tothe military. Search warrants were served by the by and the naval investigative service Al the Pentagon and some 30 other locations in 12 states the Justice depart ment announced. Federal Law enforcement sources said that the Fri had installed court authorized wiretaps at several Pentagon locations. The wiretaps sources said have Benin place for much of the period of the two year investigation. Federal investigators scaled off and searched the Pentagon office of Victor Cohen. He is the civilian official responsible for buying tactical Battle command control communications and computer systems for the air Force a Pentagon official said. Also scaled Oft and searched was the Pentagon office of James Caines Deputy see probe on Back Page deficit dip gives Dollar strength London up the . Dollar strengthened i Europe wednesday still spurred by the improved Ameri can Trade deficit figures for april. Gold prices also Rose. Asa result traders bought dollars and the Dollar Rose on major foreign Exchange markets. The american currency closed in Frankfurt at 1.7-189 West German Marks up from tuesday s final 1.7251, i Zurich at 1.4645 Swiss francs against 1.4615, and in Paris at 5.8990 French francs from 5.8238. Sales of German Marks to . Personnel for person Al use will be at the Rale of 1.74 thursday based on a Price fixing at midday and allowance for Standard handling charges. See other currency rates on Page 16. The Dollar also ended Hie Day i Ahur in Brussels at 36.80 belgian francs up from tuesday s closing 36.5750, in Amsterdam at 1.9635 guilders against1.9600,and in Milan at 1.299.30 lire from 1.282.85. In London the British Pound weakened further against the Dollar to close Al 51,7855, Down from tues Day s final j 1.7875, the Dollar began a Strong rally in Europe following tuesday s announcement in Washington of a . Trade deficit for april of $9.9 billion the lowest figure since december 1984, on the earlier Tokyo Market the Dollar surged As soon As trading opened wednesday. The american currency closed at 126.31 japanese yen up 1.27 from tuesday s final 125.05. On the precious metals markets Gold closed in Zurich at $452 per ounce from $447 and in London at 1452.75 against s448.2 5. Silver also Rose closing in Zurich at 17.10 per ounce from j6.90 and in London at $7.13 from $6.93. Keyed up for the Brawl game riot police with rubber Sticks chaise toward a crowd of unruly soccer fun in Ufa Sedori West Germany a few hours before wednesday s game in which Holland Defeated England 3-1. Before the game dutch and English a photo fans clashed in the streets but no violence was reported during the match itself. Police braced for a possible dare up of trouble wednesday night see sports wire Page 23. Usa eur Safe drug offences declined in 87 by Daryle. Green Bureau while the air Force and army posted significant declines in the number of drug offences in Europe last year aggravated assault was on the Rise according to1987 statistics on military crime. Overall. Air Force crime figures for 1987 showed a downward trend while the army said its statistics remained about the same. Traffic Accident deaths de creased for both commands. Crime As a whole is leveling off said capt. Stella a Edwards chief of crime prevention for the army in Europe. Classified ads aggravated assault in both Safe and Usa eur Rose last year with 112 offences in the air Force com Mand in 1987 compared with 104 in 1986. The army in Europe saw an increase of 63, from 932 in 1986 to 99sml987, while the numbers have not caused alarm in the air Force Usa eur officials said they Are taking a closer look at the problem. We re developing an aggravated assault technical packet that Mil go out to unit command ers and Community Provost marshals Edwards said. Reported rapes dipped in army communities in Europe from 157 cases in 1986 to 149 last year but almost doubled in Safe communities from 12 to 23. However it. Col. Bud Lieiman the Safe Law enforcement chief pointed out that the rape numbers arc quite re looking at 23 rapes out of a 200,000 civilian and military air Force he of the rapes fell into what Ciman called the Dale rape category. Usually they know the prion that they Are saying raped them. It s either the Date rape someone in the dormitory or someone they be been seen with been drinking with or Usa eur drug offences reflected the biggest drop from 2.657 to 2,000 in Safe drug offences fell froms08toia5. The biggest reason is the increased use of the Uri see offences on Back Page Magazine today
